... of the year before, and by the killing of the apostle Perley Pratt, in Arkansas.
Pratt had seduced the wife and abducted the children of a man named McLean, who followed him from San Francisco to Arkansas , where he overtook and slew him in combat.
Though Mormon common law justifies homicide as the penalty of adultery, the Gentile has not the benefit of the rule, and vengeance was denounced against ...